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April 9, 2004 FA18's over Najaf

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thanksforthecas

Member
Aviators,

My original purpose for crossing your QD.

I'm trying to identify the Aviators who answered an ECAS Talk-On

Money shot /danger close 300, not easy to forget.

The involved CJSOTF/CJTF Supposedly handled a well deserved award. But we, want to know for sure that they have been recognized. And thanked.

I'd appreciate any help making contact with these guys or their Command.

And thanks to all you guys for undercarriage inspections in Fallon that made me piss myself and for staying longer than you should have when the sound of your engines bought us time.
 
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phrogpilot73

Well-Known Member
thanksforthecas said:
But we, want to know for sure that they have been recognized. And thanked.

And thanks to all you guys for undercarriage inspections in Fallon that made me piss myself and for staying longer than you should have when the sound of your engines bought us time.
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Sorry, can't help you here - maybe one of my fixed wing brethern can...

For the guy that was thinking about quitting the Naval Academy - this is why we do it.
 
BlkPny

BlkPny

Registered User
pilot
Brings back memories.

Every once in awhile in Viet Nam we'd have a young soldier or SEAL wander in to our bunker or our trailer, looking lost a little scared. He'd ask about who was flying a certain night, and shot for a certain call sign.

We'd ALWAYS do everything we could to identify the pilots and get them together with the grunt. If you could ever experience this get-together, or even witness one, you would never again complain about scrambling during a thunderstorm in the middle of the night, or trying to find the target when its darker than the inside of a cow, or trying to calm down the guy on the radio who's pinned down and is convinced he's going to die.

At that moment, you would appreciate what it means to be a Naval Aviator.

Then, we'd make it a point to abduct the kid and make him our honored guest for a few days, telling his command that he was our charge for awhile. Probably even take him for a ride.

Good times.
 
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thanksforthecas

Member
UPDATE:

This afternoon I received an email from the office of a senior Naval Aviator working at CENTCOM. The aviator's will be identified by COB, Monday. I thank you all again, especially HeyJoe for his help.
 
scoober78

scoober78

(HCDAW)
pilot
Contributor
This thread makes me feel better about all the YouTube video, and the "Hey, could you write my essay" threads. I'm as guilty as the next guy, but this seems to me to be the real deal.

Thanks to all.
 
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thanksforthecas

Member
With all due regard for OPSEC.

No small irony in Scoober's post. There is a video, on YOUTUBE, it cuts open less than 90 seconds after impact. Our primary sniper who'd been busy working looks to me and says "Hey man who dropped that expletive J-Dam?" Saving me the embarrassment of acknowledging my failure to ensure all personnel had been informed (many prior ABORT's) he interjected "we thought somebody shot an RPG at us".

How he could have mistaken F-18s and a J series for an RPG is beyond me, aside from his being task saturated and adrenaline OD'd.


The video clip can be found on the Najaf thread you guys have elsewhere,

With that, I've gotta bounce. Anymore discussion of the incident by me wont do any good for the pilots. Things are in motion and screwing them up with a careless post in the open would ruin alot of hard work by good people.I'm certain you guys will easily be able to recognize the end result.

no shit. thank you all for everything.
 
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